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Special Report

The grain transport breakdown is but one recent example of breakdown in the food supply
in what is considered the most food-secure nation in the world, and illustrates the
fact that “natural disasters”—bad weather, floods, droughts—are not the cause of the
world’s food crises.

Departments

Economics

Two processes—social chaos and a financial blowout—are intersecting to create one
of the most unstable political and financial conditions in the industrial world, potentially
rivaling the ongoing Japanese crisis.